Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show

In this podcast, I talk about startups and the importance of a mentor in a startup with Jeffery Potvin. Jeffery Potvin, an angel investor in multiple regions who have Invested in 55+ companies . He is a member of the York, Spark & GTAN angels & screening committees while being the driving force behind Open People Network (OPN)! OPN is a group of angel investors helping accelerate the growt...

Unveiling Entrepreneurship and giving in-depth insights into the subject   Elissa Bloom is the Executive Director of the Philadelphia Fashion Incubator at Macy's Center City. She has been with the organization since 2011 and, with the board, launched the successful initiative, which is now used as an international model for fashion incubation.   Elissa Boom founded and maintained Elissa Bloom...

Artificial Intelligence and big data facts to challenge the common global assumption   Marcia is the founding Global Head of ESG sustainability and corporate responsibility at relics. RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers with more than 33,000 employees. In this podcast, I talk about Business and Sustainability as well a...

Gabriela is currently a member of the committee on Foreign Affairs and the committee on urban and Metropolitan Development in the Mexican parliament . She is also the honorary president of the inter-parliamentary Union for Mexico.  In this podcast, I talk about decisions and empathy in business and politics with Gabriela. She's got some great insights into decisions and empathy that I think w...

Shailendra is an award-winning global Artificial Intelligence expert.  He worked as Vice President and Chief Evangelist - AI & Machine Learning at SAP. With an experience of over 23 years working with Corporates, Software Vendors, and Consulting companies to deliver over One Billion Dollars through advanced analytics. He has established and led several data science businesses to generate reven...

Entrepreneurs play a key role in any economy, using the skills and initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bringing good new ideas to market. In this podcast I talk about entrepreneurship and technology with Nadia Hansen We discuss entrepreneurship and technology  Nadia is the Chief Information Officer for Clark County in Las Vegas, Nevada . Clark County is an $8 billion public enterprise, wh...

In this podcast, I talk about leadership with Mike Ryan Mike has been a board member and CEO for more than 35 years at technology, healthcare & international consulting companies, including a $35M company with 300 employees from a startup at $20B public hospital company (HCA) and a $15M company with 250 employees at healthcare companies part of $18B company. He is also the winner of 2013 TOP 1...

Using good motivation and leadership practices to succeed in life. Bob currently partnered with Dominique Wilkins , a nine-time NBA all-star and player for the Hawks. In addition, Bob also serves as play-by-play announcer for Southeastern Conference football games on FSN South and Atlantic Coast Conference , calling back basketball games for Raycom sports . He's an expert in media television,...

In this podcast, I talk about innovation and technology with Zaheer Ali. Zaheer is a world-renowned innovator and leader who currently works for NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) as the Manager of Safety and Mission Assurance. SOFIA is an advanced telescope mounted into a modified 747 Boeing Aircraft, which flies to 45,000 ft . to do Infrared Astronomy. Zaheer is...

Leadership involves influencing others to accomplish a common goal.  In this podcast, I talk about leadership with Chris Kowalewski. He's got some great insights into leadership that I think will challenge some common assumptions we all have. Chris Kowalewski is a 32 year veteran in the food and support services industry. Currently, he is the Chief Growth Officer at the Compass Group. Those o...

Shownotes Communication with your employees is one of the most important things you can do to maintain that motivation. You want to know what's going on in their lives, you want to know what's going on in their career, you want to know what they're doing outside of work, so you can get a sense of how they're spending their time and what they're doing during that time. When...

Shownotes Every day there's going to be something new, an employee is going to quit, a client is going to pull their account, your ad account may get affected someday, SEO may not be working, your email list may start bouncing, all these problems are going to show up at your doorstep and you're going to have to fix them. You're going to need to hire someone with knowledge of your in...

Shownotes The importance of Big Data analytics, data mining, and everything to do with data cannot be understated.  It enables you to capture more clients, serve more communities and build more profits. Once you understand the power of data, you can figure out what your customers are thinking and what they're likely to buy. Here are the four reasons Why big data is important for business Unde...

Jena Domingue is a highly accomplished senior executive with more than 20 years of success in the wine, eCommerce, digital marketing, luxury goods, and staffing industries. Throughout her career. She had held leadership positions with wine direct, Jan Marini, skin research, and other luxury goods companies, and was a San Francisco Bay Area native. Also with over 20 years of experience and sales, J...

Shownotes Every year, around 472 million entrepreneurs and 305 million enterprises are formed. 1.3 million of those startups are in the technology sector. Regardless of the industry, the majority of them fail. The continuous rise in entrepreneurship is a sign that economies are thriving. However, as the number of new businesses grows, so do old, often incorrect notions about startups. Myths can be...

Shownotes  (0:55) Introduction - Colonel Jennifer JJ snow is the Chief Technology Officer at the United States Air Force . AFWERX is a United States Air Force program with the goal of fostering a culture of innovation within the service. It is intended to engage inter and extra service innovators and entrepreneurs in the operations of the United States Air Force. Jennifer serves as the government...

Shownotes: The reason so many startups fail is that people think too much about their business and not enough about their business.  What that means is, they don't go meet new people or spread the word about their business. Here are the three reasons why startups fail Costs and pricing Most startup founders focus too much on growing their business and not enough on funding it.  This means the...

 (0:33) Introduction - Kara is the founder and CEO of hint Inc, which is best known for its award-winning hint water.  Kara is skilled in entrepreneurship, brand management, sales, e-commerce, marketing leadership, and public speaking and has been involved in the sales department for leading companies like CNN, and Time Magazine.  Kara has been named one of the InStyle badass 50 fast company&apos...

Business, entrepreneurship, and leadership are chaotic games. You need to be calm so that you can make the right decisions. Here are 3 rituals to boost  your productivity and focus Enough sleep Make sure you get enough sleep. Sleep is an important part of the day cycle, and a lot of entrepreneurs don't realize how important sleep is to their success.  If you don't sleep at least 6 hours...

There is no doubt that innovation is one of the most important factors for the long-term survival and growth of your business.  Many top companies around the world are turning to innovation as they look to compete in today’s highly competitive marketplace and remain relevant in the future.   Innovation is not the only key to creating new products but also evaluating existing ones. New discoveries...

(0:47) Introduction- Matt Oguz is a growth stage investor in technology and life science companies. His investment portfolio includes names like Lyft, Lemonade, Ripple, carbon circle stock folio , he's known for being a thought leader in quantitative investment methods in venture capital, and private equity.  Matt is the founding partner at venture science. When science was established in 201...

How do you embrace innovation? You know, with business and entrepreneurship, it's all about solving problems. If you find new ways of solving these problems, it will only benefit your business. Innovation is how a company grows. It's a way to add value. Innovation increases your profits and reduces your costs. So the idea behind innovation is to never stop. Never be satisfied with the st...

Highlights: (0:00) Right now, we are still leveraging machine learning to understand the descriptive nature of what he or she may have done from a customer standpoint and then applied. (0:11) Ecosystems will rely more and more about technology more and more on technology. And mobile is going to be the at the forefront of that. (0:27) No matter where we land, the concept of privacy is going to be d...

Highlights: (0:00): You can't just throw an AI at it and go tell me the best price. Yeah, you have to bring in your human intelligence (0:08) : Don't fall for hype. Start with an actual business problem that you have a reasonable understanding of and where automating would make a better experience. Or a better product. (0:21) : Because we're not replacing humans, we're actually...

(0:25) Introduction:  Big data and AI are incorporated into almost every aspect of our lives. Self-driving cars, namely, are being produced. And AI assistants like Alexa and Siri can now help carry out more complex commands. The seed technology that has enabled all these technologies is humongous amounts of data and pattern recognition machine learning algorithms. When Coronavirus appeared, scient...